I have a pfsense firewall in an appliance. The disk is using gmirror with RAID 1 setup. Before this, whenever I want to do OS upgrade, I will shut down the appliance, remove it from server rack, open ...

I have the following setup (very well possible that this is no good practice but it is the given situation):
There were 2 x 3TB dynamic GPT disks in a Windows server, Disk0 with EFI (~200 MB), System ...

I host a local mirror of Centos5 and Cento6 to run updates of our servers. I do not update them regularly, though, to provide a stable environment for our production servers. However there are times ...

I have the following situation:
Need to store 1 original + 1 copy for data sets that are 1-2 TB in size
Need to use consumer SATA drives, 1 for original, 1 for copy
Need to store 50+ such data sets
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I've just finished setting up a Debian system running on an embedded device. It has custom partitioning, numerous config file changes, web content, and a couple of applications compiled from source.
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I have a quick script written to compare file differences across servers, and then give a prompt for whether to mirror the changes. I'd like it to intelligently NOT prompt for copying if there aren't ...

I have rsync'ed debian amd64 to my local (Omnios) box using the recommended ftpsync too.
The size of my mirror is 143 GB. I was led to believe from debian and other sources it should be around 80 GB.
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Using debians ftpsync I've synced amd64 to my local file server, and installed debian over the network using ipxe.
It dawned on me, that the content I've downloaded needs to be shared as an apt repo, ...

I have two identical HDD. First has geometry 3876021/16/63 and second has geometry 3876018/16/63. First disk's capacity is 50% already. I want to add second disk to mirror (first disk is master). How ...

I have an Exchange 2k3 server that uses a backup process that is at times unreliable. Part of the process is to nightly truncate those transactions logs (we receive ALOT of email). Currently I have ...

We have a local mirror RPM repositorythat lives where our virtual servers live on Amazon Web Services. This setup could conserve some network bandwidth, but my predecessor probably set it up as place ...

I'm trying to install mercurial (the DVCS) but unfortunately http://mercurial.selenic.com is down. Does anybody know of any mirrors I could grab the source from, allowing me to install it. Hopefully ...

I have three servers worldwide. One in the U.S., one in Asia and one in Europe.
I want to make them mirror servers, so that when a surfer enters the U.S. He will serve in the United States. If a user ...

I noticed that https://github.com/apache/ant says "mirrored from git://git.apache.org/ant.git" (with a link) and I'd like to do the same.
https://exyr.org/2011/git-mirrors/ seems like a good write up ...

I have a drive with data on it. I dont want to use RAID, instead I want to do hourly backups to a second drive. I basically want to mirror the data drive and resync every hour.
It is inefficient to ...

I am trying to get a site mirroring with wget, and came across a strange behavior.
Say I am mirroring an internal site named www.example.com in the following way, all seems to be working fine:
wget ...

Is it possible to specify a mirror for YUM to target when doing updates? I've noticed on my CentOS 6.2 servers that it takes up to a minute for YUM to respond from a given command. I did some Googling ...

It is possible to migrate a single disk, to Raid 1 as per Table 10 in the User Guide Page 122:
http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9650SE-UsrGuide.pdf
I am trying to find what the best method ...

I have replaced failed drives on Solaris 10 that are mirrored with SVM before. I am wondering if I have been doing it incorrectly... or taking a huge risk. I follow the usual metadetach, metaclear, ...

In the BIOS of an ASUS motherboard I've set up a RAID 1 mirror out of two hard drives. All is working fine at present. I have two OS installed on the machine: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
My ...